_make_boundary(): Fix for SF bug #745478, broken boundary calculation

in some locales.  This code simplifies the boundary algorithm to use
randint() which is what we wanted anyway.

Bump package version to 2.5.3.

Backport candidate for Python 2.2.3

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/email/Generator.py b/Lib/email/Generator.py
index 9cce51c40b..6f17963d0f 100644
--- a/Lib/email/Generator.py
+++ b/Lib/email/Generator.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 """
 
 import re
+import sys
 import time
 import locale
 import random
@@ -356,11 +357,14 @@ class DecodedGenerator(Generator):
 
 
 # Helper
+_width = len(repr(sys.maxint-1))
+_fmt = '%%0%dd' % _width
+
 def _make_boundary(text=None):
     # Craft a random boundary.  If text is given, ensure that the chosen
     # boundary doesn't appear in the text.
-    dp = locale.localeconv().get('decimal_point', '.')
-    boundary = ('=' * 15) + repr(random.random()).split(dp)[1] + '=='
+    token = random.randint(0, sys.maxint-1)
+    boundary = ('=' * 15) + (_fmt % token) + '=='
     if text is None:
         return boundary
     b = boundary
diff --git a/Lib/email/__init__.py b/Lib/email/__init__.py
index d9462bcab5..b5d8d72eee 100644
--- a/Lib/email/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/email/__init__.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 """A package for parsing, handling, and generating email messages.
 """
 
-__version__ = '2.5.2'
+__version__ = '2.5.3'
 
 __all__ = [
     'base64MIME',